Description

Angular Universal module for Nest.

Installation

Using the Angular CLI:

$ ng add @nestjs/ng-universal

Or manually:

$ npm i @nestjs/ng-universal

Example

See full example here.

Usage

If you have installed the module manually, you need to import AngularUniversalModule in your Nest application.

import { Module } from '@nestjs/common';
import { join } from 'path';
import { AngularUniversalModule } from '@nestjs/ng-universal';

@Module({
  imports: [
    AngularUniversalModule.forRoot({
      bootstrap: AppServerModule,
      viewsPath: join(process.cwd(), 'dist/{APP_NAME}/browser')
    })
  ]
})
export class ApplicationModule {}

API Spec

The forRoot() method takes an options object with a few useful properties.

Cache

AngularUniversalModule.forRoot({
  bootstrap: AppServerModule,
  viewsPath: join(process.cwd(), 'dist/{APP_NAME}/browser'),
  cache: {
    storage: new InMemoryCacheStorage(),
    expiresIn: DEFAULT_CACHE_EXPIRATION_TIME,
    keyGenerator: new CustomCacheKeyGenerator()
  }
});

Example for CacheKeyGenerator:

export class CustomCacheKeyGenerator implements CacheKeyGenerator {
  generateCacheKey(request: Request): string {
    const md = new MobileDetect(request.headers['user-agent']);
    const isMobile = md.mobile() ? 'mobile' : 'desktop';
    return (request.hostname + request.originalUrl + isMobile).toLowerCase();
  }
}

Request and Response Providers

This tool uses @nguniversal/express-engine and will properly provide access to the Express Request and Response objects in you Angular components. Note that tokens must be imported from the @nestjs/ng-universal/tokens, not @nguniversal/express-engine/tokens.

This is useful for things like setting the response code to 404 when your Angular router can't find a page (i.e. path: '**' in routing):

import { Response } from 'express';
import { Component, Inject, Optional, PLATFORM_ID } from '@angular/core';
import { isPlatformServer } from '@angular/common';
import { RESPONSE } from '@nestjs/ng-universal/tokens';

@Component({
  selector: 'my-not-found',
  templateUrl: './not-found.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./not-found.component.scss']
})
export class NotFoundComponent {
  constructor(
    @Inject(PLATFORM_ID)
    private readonly platformId: any,
    @Optional()
    @Inject(RESPONSE)
    res: Response
  ) {
    // `res` is the express response, only available on the server
    if (isPlatformServer(this.platformId)) {
      res.status(404);
    }
  }
}

Custom Webpack

In some situations, it may be required to customize the webpack build while using @nestjs/ng-universal, especially when additional dependencies are included (that rely on native Node.js code).

To add a customizable webpack config to your project, it is recommended to install @angular-builders/custom-webpack in the project and to set your builders appropriately.

Example Custom Webpack

// webpack.config.ts
import { Configuration, IgnorePlugin } from 'webpack'
import {
  CustomWebpackBrowserSchema,
  TargetOptions
} from '@angular-builders/custom-webpack'
import nodeExternals from 'webpack-node-externals'

export default (
  config: Configuration
  _options: CustomWebpackBrowserSchema,
  targetOptions: TargetOptions
) => {
  if (targetOptions.target === 'server') {
    config.resolve?.extensions?.push('.mjs', '.graphql', '.gql')

    config.module?.rules?.push({
      test: /\.mjs$/,
      include: /node_modules/,
      type: 'javascript/auto'
    });

    config.externalsPresets = { node: true }

    (config.externals as Array<any>).push(
      nodeExternals({ allowlist: [/^(?!(livereload|concurrently|fsevents)).*/]})
    );

    config.plugins?.push(
      new IgnorePlugin({
        checkResource: (resource: string) => {
          const lazyImports = [
            '@nestjs/microservices',
            '@nestjs/microservices/microservices-module',
            '@nestjs/websockets/socket-module',
            'cache-manager',
            'class-validator',
            'class-transform',
          ];

          if (!lazyImpots.includes(resource)) {
            return false;
          }

          try {
            require.resolve(resource)
          } catch (_err: any) {
            return true;
          }
          return false;
        }
      })
    );
  }
  return config;
};

Support

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Stay in touch

• Author - Kamil Myśliwiec
• Website - https://nestjs.com
• Twitter - @nestframework

License

Nest is MIT licensed.